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Texas Holdem
Gambling
by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Dec 27, 2006
About Texas holdem:
Among all the other
community card poker games Texas holdem is one of the
most popular and also the most popular poker variant
played in most of the casinos in the United States of
America. Theoretically it can be played by almost 22
people but generally 2 to 10 numbers of persons. Texas
holdem is one of the most positional of all poker
variants as the order of variants of betting is fixed
throughout all the betting rounds of the game. There are
other versions of the game namely seven card studs and
the Omaha holdem that are commonly played outside the
United States and perhaps are more popular than the
original version of the game. The no limit betting form
of Texas holdem is used in the main event of the world
series of poker and the world poker tour. However before
racing down to the casino and signing up for a high
stakes tournament one needs to learn the basics of the
game and get some playing experience in low limit games.
How to play:
The gambling of
Texas holdem is
said to be deceptively simple game to learn but at the
same time is harder to master. In this game each of the
players is dealt with two personal cards and then
community cards are turned up on the board. The best
five card hand is made using any combination of the
seven cards. For example in a low limit structure of
$2/4 there are usually four betting rounds and the first
of the two rounds has a limit of $4. A player can only
bet or raise only the amount of the limit for that
round. In the beginning of the game when a round starts
a new hand two blind bets are put up or posted the
player who is seated immediately to the left hand side
of the dealer puts up the small blind that is half the
minimum bet one dollar. Then the player to the left of
the big blind which is equal to the minimum bet which is
two dollars for the same round of the game. The rest of
the players do not put up any money to start the hand as
the deal rotates around the table and each of the
players eventually acts as the big and the small blind
and the dealer.
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